I'm running out of time

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Except I don't want that. I don't want to feel rushed into having to look for something serious. If something serious comes along, that's great. But I don't want to feel I'm under pressure to find something serious and that I can't just enjoy myself and have fun. But I missed out on that when I was the right age for it, and now it's too late.

But you said you do not have time for any fun because you are getting old. But if you still want to, then go for it?

Your mistake is in insisting that younger women are somehow "better," and thus that not having had them makes you less worthy. I don't see the equation working that way AT ALL. Women achieve their sexual peak around 40, not at 18, not at 25. So what exactly is "better" in younger women? Only fertility. In fact, as someone who didn't blossom until her 30s, and married at 36, I find your presumption highly offensive. My best years didn't happen until well into my thirties, but you want to deny the reality of my own experience and put ME on a "not good enough" shelf?! I refuse to buy into that #!@*$@(!#&. I KNOW MY OWN WORTH, both then, and now. I realize this conversation isn't about me, but you can't make those claims without also putting people like me into a box in which we don't belong. If you insist on making those connections, then understand just how many great people you are trashing in the process and own it. You can't have it both ways. Are you an !@*(#!& who really believes this stuff, or is it a narrative you've made for yourself because it gives you an excuse to feel sorry for yourself and mad at the universe?

I know this is harsh, I've tried to be polite about your preferences even though I see them as offensive, and have tried to work with you on it, but if you can't absorb any of those polite conversations, maybe you CAN absorb the reality of how you are continually disrespecting women on here who are trying to help you. Because you are. Maybe the path out of seeing yourself so negatively is to understand what your logic for doing so says about everyone around you.

Also ... Have you ever considered that maybe the universe knows you better than you know yourself? Or that it wasn't the universe choosing, but your own subconscious, which also knows you better than you know yourself? Get off this notion that you missed out on something that was "better" than anything you can find today. That just isn't true. The obsession creates this giant roadblock for you that does not have to be there.

Part of the regret is missing out on having fun with younger girls and being limited to a pool of 40+

This is a real dilemma that I too faced in my mid 30s.

Why are younger women more appealing, is it just the looks mainly?

I should have been more precise with my language. I subconsciously choose emotional impact over clarity. What I meant is that you choose actions and assumptions that can be expected to lead to outcomes you say you don't want.

If you're a "godd@mned freak" then I am too, and I resent being called that.

I'm socially and physically awkward, can't initiate a conversation, a single parent, financially struggling, immature in many ways, and a lot older than you--all of which should be huge negatives. But I still get interest from women in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s. (My lack of "maturity" might even appeal to the younger ones.) My current partner is much younger than I am. The only difference I can see between us is that I don't wallow in complaints and self-pity--which isn't attractive to women of any age.

Why are younger women more appealing, is it just the looks mainly?

Oh okay, that makes sense. But is the OP's best option is to go for younger, since he is getting older? Maybe not 20 years old but around 30?

For example, I started dating a younger woman and she said that guys her age are p#@$ies compared to the older generation, so maybe older men have that going for them if some younger women think that?